Word: dahlem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany's Pastor Martin Niemöller. who preached from his Dahlem pulpit, too often for his own safety, against the false gods of totalitarianism. He was thin but tanned and in good spirits...
...biology as a curious youngster, and it remained biology through high school, college, graduate work, as National Research Fellow, International Education Board Fellow at Brussels, Freiburg, and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin--Dahlem, as assistant professor at Brown University in 1926-27, as assistant professor at Harvard in 1927, and as Master of Leverett House...
...whole world is Pastor Niemoller. A gaunt, blunt, unbending hero of World War I, who won the Iron Cross for his exploits as a submarine commander (he sank 55,000 tons of Allied shipping), he was pastor of the swank Jesus Christus Kirche in Berlin's socialite suburb Dahlem and led the Confessional Synod's attack on Naziism until clapped into jail in July 1937 for "misuse of the pulpit." The court freed him when he came to trial in February 1938, but the Gestapo promptly hustled him off to concentration camp at Sachsenhausen. There he remains...